Flycatcher



A. PURVIS FLYCATCHER Oct. 27, 1925. 1,559,373

Filed Nov. 19. 1924 Patented Oct. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES ANNETT PURVIS, OF SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA.

FLYCATCHER.

Application filed November 19, 1924.

To (1. 1 whom it may concern.

lie it known that l. ANNE'rr Poavis, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shreveport, in the parish of Caddo and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Flycatcher, of which the following is a specitication.

This invention relates to fly traps or catchtt crs and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a device of the character stated which is of simple and durable form having its parts 3 and features compactly assembled and arranged to cooperate to lure the flies and enlrap them.

In the accompanying drawing:-

i igure 1 is a side elevational view of the fly catcher with parts broken away, and

parts shown in section.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of the fly catcher.

The tty catcher comprises a casing 1 which '3 is mounted upon suitable feet 2. The casing provided at one side with an opening};

adapted to receive a pan .4, best shown 111 Figure :2 of the drawing. A foraminous drum is journaled in the upper portion of no the casing l and the shaft of the said drum is opcrativcl connected with a spring motor it ei'tclosed within a housing 7 mounted atthc end of the casing 1. A frame 8 is mountetl upon the upper edge of the casing 1 and 3 is provided at its upper side With a handle 9. Screen sections 10 form the side and top walls of the fly catcher and are carried by the frame 8. Anti-clined screen sections 11 and 12 are disposed under the frame 8 and to within the wall sections 10 and the upper edges of the screen sections 11 and 12 are spaced from each other as at 13. A strip 14 is carried by the screen section 12 and bears at its edge against the periphery of the drum 5 and forms a closure for the space between the peripheryof the drum 5 and the screen section 12. The lower edge of the screen section 12 is spaced from the rear screen scc tion 10 of the top portion of the catcher as St) at to. The screen section 12 is of greater Serial No. 750,827.

area than the screen section 11. The screen section it is located completely above the top side of the drum 5 while the screen section 12 extends from the line above the top side of the drum 5 to a line approximately horizontal with the axis of the drum.

in operation, the drum 5 is rotated at a slow rate of speed by the spring motor 6. The forward portion of the drum 5 moves in an upward direction as indicated by the arrow in Figt'tre of the drawing. The flies that light upon the upper forward portion of the drum 5 are carried under the lower edge of the screen section 11 and as they approach the screen section 12 they are moving through a cmnparatively darkened space and t-onsetpiently they become suspicious and ll in an upward direction toward the light which is coming through the space 13 and in an attempt to make an escape from the trap. The flies pass through the said space and enter the enclosure under the screen section 10. For a period of time, the flies will re main in the upper portion of the top of the catcher but eventually they will descend along the rear screen section 10 and pass out of the top portion of the catcher through the space 15 and descend or fall into the body of the casing 1 and are dropped into the pan 1. ll'hen it is desired to kill all of the flies which remain alive and in the upper portion of the trap the whole trap body is placed over a stove or an incinerator and the flies in the upper portion of the trap are sulfocated by the heat and fall through the space 15 into the pan 4. At intervals the pan or drawer 4 may be removed from the lower portion of the casing 1 and emptied of its contents, and after being cleaned may be re inserted in the casing. Thus it will be seen that means are provided for concealing the dead or dying tlies, as the receiving pan or drawer is enclosed between the solid walls of the casing.

Having thus described the invention, what 1 claim is A fly catcher comprising a casing. a drum journaled for rotation in the upper portion thereof. a housing of foraminous material mounted upon the casing and receiving the upper portion of the drum, foraniinous secdrum to a line approximately midway betions arranged in anti-clined relation, and tween the upper and lower sides of the located under the top of the catcher, the drum, the lower edge of the last mentioned 10 upper edges of the sections being spaced, foraminous section being spaced from the one of said fora'minous sections being 10- adjacent side Wall of the housing.

cated above the drum, and the other forami- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. nous section extending from a. line above the MRS. ANNETT PURVIS. 

